Networked control systems (NCS) confer advantages of cost reduction, system diagnosis and flexibility, minimizing wiring and simplifying the addition and replacement of individual elements; efficient data sharing makes taking globally intelligent control decisions easier with NCS.

The applications of NCS range from the large scale of factory automation and plant monitoring to the smaller networks of computers in modern cars, places and autonomous robots.

Networked Control Systems presents recent results in stability and robustness analysis and new developments related to networked fuzzy and optimal control. Many chapters contain case-studies, experimental, simulation or other application-related work showing how the theories put forward can be implemented.

The state-of-the art research reported in this volume by an international team of contributors makes it an essential reference for researchers and postgraduate students in control, electrical, computer and mechanical engineering and computer science.

A list of the professional achievements of the Professor Derong Liu includes:

Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), since 2005

AdCom Member (elected), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2006-2009

Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Electronic Letter, 2004-present

Letters Editor, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 2006-present

Associate Editor, Automatica, 2006-present

Associate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-present

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 2004-2006

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2001-2003

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I, 1997-1999

Member, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1995-2000

General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing
and Control, Sanya, China, 2008

General Chair, 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks,Nanjing, China, 2007

Program Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Hong Kong, 2008

Program Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and
Reinforcement Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007

Program Chair, 21st IEEE International Symposium on IntelligentControl, Munich, Germany, 2006

Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2006

University Scholar, University of Illinois, 2006-2009 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1999

Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1997

Michael J. Birck Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1990

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